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> Countries have millions of people in them, which are doing many things with that energy. It illustrates the waste.

But Bitcoin is something that people are doing with energy in countries. It is 1/2000th of the average person's footprint.

Is doesn't seem reasonable to call, say, people flying around in airplanes doing something with energy while calling Bitcoin "waste".



You would have to show that bitcoin transactions are globally uniformly distributed for that claim to hold well.

The rest of you argument hinges on the idea that the value created by bitcoin on-chain transactions is equivalent to that of airplane usage (the fact that our current air plane usage is wasteful aside), an argument I won't get into without evidence-of-good-faith


I am simply pointing out that the usage of Bitcoin or something else is better assessed as comparison to global consumption. Trying to map energy usage per product/category to energy usage per country is not insightful and misleading, as it suggests the product/category is not part of the country's energy consumption.

I am not at all arguing that Bitcoin is useful, or that its energy consumption isn't excessive.




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